Flights to Barbados from North America, Europe or the Caribbean is often as easy as getting on the Internet and completing your on-line booking with a credit card. Then turn up at your designated airport, get on board and enjoy the ride.
Canada
From Canada you can book with WestJet or Air Canada and they will do the rest. On-line booking and web check-in are available for both.
Calgary-based WestJet started operations in 1996 and ten years later was rated the second-best low-cost airline in North America.
Famous for its low fares, WestJet services Barbados 4 times weekly with non-stop flights from Toronto Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
With connections to 28 major Canadian cities, you can use the airline to get to Barbados from other locations in Canada.
WestJet serves some four dozen destinations overall, across Canada, the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean, using a fleet of 75 modern, fuel-efficient Boeing 737 aircraft.....so comfort on the flight to Barbados is guaranteed.
Air Canada, Canada's largest airline and the country's flag carrier, has been serving Barbados for nearly 60 years and offers executive first and economy class travel, with music and movies.
On its current schedule it comes to Barbados 8 times a week, with seven flights from Toronto (one every day) and 1 at the weekend (Sundays) from Montreal. From December 2008 the number of flights rises to 11 per week - 9 from Toronto and 2 from Montreal.
The 2008-2009 winter schedule change will coincide with the introduction of larger planes from Toronto, the 210-seat Boeing 767s.
Besides it regular services, the 70-year-old carrier provides holiday air and cruise packages to Barbados via Air Canada Vacations.
Travelling from Canada in the winter season you also have a choice of the 20-year-old Canadian charter airline Sunwing. Sunwing, which aims for low cost and high value, operates one service to Barbados from Toronto on Mondays only.
United States
From the United States, you have a bunch of options. You can get to Barbados directly on scheduled services by American Airlines, Air Jamaica, Delta and US Airways out of New York, Miami, Atlanta, North Carolina and Philadelphia.
American Airlines operates the largest number of International flights into Barbados - 21 per week - 2 per day from Miami International and 1 a day from John F Kennedy in New York.
As the largest carrier in the USA, AA also boasts the widest network of connecting locations - over 250 cities. Within the USA, American Airlines operates five US hubs - in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (the company's headquarters) Chicago, Miami and St. Louis and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
Air Jamaica brings the Caribbean flavour to flying to Barbados. The number one Jamaican airline flies non-stop from JFK Airport, New York to Barbados 4 times a week - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. You can expect fewer services after the end of March 2009, as the winter tourist season tapers off.
Delta resumes its scheduled non-stop services to Barbados November 22nd (2008), with 1 Saturday flight weekly. The airline comes out of Atlanta only, with connections to the rest of the US and tends to fly mainly in the peak season.
Delta's services to Barbados are expected to go from 1 per week to 3 from December 21st, leaving Atlanta on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
From January 8th, 2009, this changes to 2 flights a week - Saturdays and Sundays.
US Airways is currently developing its US-Barbados services. The airline currently has 1 Saturday flight per week to Barbados from Charlotte, North Carolina using a 150-seat Airbus 320.
Airline officials expect this to grow to 3 flights weekly from January 2009, with 2 services out of North Carolina on Saturdays and Sundays and 1 on Saturdays from Philadelphia.
For the holiday makers, the airline operates US Airways Vacations, with special all-inclusive packages. Besides online booking and web check-in, US airways also offers kiosk check-in at some US airports, for added convenience.
UK/Europe
Flying from Europe to Barbados your main choices for scheduled flights are British Airways and Virgin Atlantic from the United Kingdom; and Condor out of Germany.
British Airways flies a 224-seater Boeing 777 from London's Gatwick airport direct to Grantley Adams International airport 9 times a week. There's 1 flight on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 2 flights on Fridays and Saturdays.
The airline offers up 100 in-flight movies to choose from, depending on seat class, plus on-line booking and web check-in. One of BA's latest innovations: telephone check-in.
Virgin Atlantic flies mainly Boeing 747 jumbo jets to Barbados, with 1 flight per day from Gatwick - Sunday to Saturday - and 1 flight on Sundays from Manchester.
And when it's time to leave Barbados the airline has pioneered "check-in and chill-out". This is where Virgin completes the passenger check-in at selected Barbados south and west coast hotels. Such passengers are then able to arrive at the Grantley Adams Airport and head straight for the departure lounge, avoiding the long lines at the check-in counter.
Condor is the only other scheduled carrier from Europe. The German airline lands in Barbados once a week from Frankfurt, on Fridays.
Caribbean
There are about 35 flights into Barbados daily from across the English, French, Spanish and Dutch Caribbean.
Antigua-based LIAT is the main commuter airline operating in the islands. Liat has about two dozen flights into Grantley Adams International Airport every day. The airline serves 22 different Caribbean countries. Most of the flights are from Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Guyana and St. Lucia, but there are lots of connections to the other locations.
Caribbean Airlines serves Barbados from Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Antigua, St. Maarten and Jamaica. There are 3 services daily from Port of Spain using 50-seater dash-8 aircraft. You can also get to Barbados from Guyana once a day on Caribbean Airlines.
The airline uses its bigger jets, the Boeing 737, for its 4 times a week services from Jamaica and Antigua (Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and 3 times weekly flights from St. Maarten (Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays).
American Airline's smaller subsidiary carrier, American Eagle flies in from Puerto Rico 4 times a week - on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
|
